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I just read Looking For Alaska by John Green ... any similar books ?? ya know teen love/obsession

>> No.1341406

>>1341393
twilight

>> No.1341435

>>1341406
Something that's less gayer -_- , no offence

I rly need to learn how to use 4chan

>> No.1341441

I'm teaching him this thursday.
I read his three major novels, ...Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns.
All of which were very good- abundance being my favorite. They all bear his signature writing style and recurring themes, so I'd suggest those to you.

If you wouldn't mind, could you tell me any thoughts you had about the novel Looking for Alaska?

>> No.1341442

>>1341435
>Reads looking for alaska
>asks for less gay
yeahno.

>> No.1341457

>>1341442
have you read it?

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>> No.1341460

>>1341457
Ive read excerpts of it. and it just seems to teenage lovey for me.
Hey if thats what your into thats cool, but i just find it kinda gay.

>> No.1341465

>>1341460
what constitutes non-gay for you?

>> No.1341468

>>1341457
And i loved it !!! half the book is about Miles falling in luv w/ Alaska and the other half is a psychological drama :D

>> No.1341469

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Green was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska. It is taught in many high school and college curricula and has been published in more than fifteen languages.

>> No.1341471

>>1341465
i mean give me a break .... i'm not menstruating ... i need /lit/ not gay vampires ...Remember when vampires used to be cool ... look at them now ...it's a shame

I meant gay ... figuratively!

>> No.1341472

>>1341471
Looking for Alaska has nothing to do vampires or homosexuality. The main character gets blowed by this chick a 3rd of the way in. I mean, give me a break.

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1341477

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.

It's a touching story about a boy and a girl who fall in love when they're 12 and 14 and overcome various hurdles to spend the rest of their life together. <3

It's 600 pages-ish but isn't Twilight that long? Yeah, it's no big deal.

>> No.1341499

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is kind of... phony and unbelievable in terms of the main character doing things that in real life would have him completely socially freezed out while in the book he's still getting laid; but I mean it's about this oversensitive teen, and he's growing up, and stuff happen to him, and you get touched, and he's obsessed with this girl, and you identify, and you read his thoughts on pop-cultural stuff that was in during the 90s, and he says "if you want to know the truth" more times than Holden Caulfield did in The Catcher in the Rye which is a clear influence on it, but then again is there a single young adult novel that's not influenced by The Catcher in the Rye? I think there is, but at least this one very clearly is.

I think it fits what you're looking for in any case.

>> No.1341565

>>1341393
OP here ..i was saying gay vampires to the person who sugested Twilight ...I've read Looking For Alaska and is a v.good book